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Term forward looking, not loss in a sea of economic fear and people would blame him for taking away unemployment benefits, no dock fix. letting taxes go up on everything. thats not what he wants. >> chris: payroll taxes. >> right. both sides have strong incentives to make a deal. not to mention they want to get out of town for christmas. >> bill, given all of that, and you were one of the early people who said republicans -- i just felt we would remind those who may have missed it, you said repu...

Term forward looking, not loss in a sea of economic fear and people would blame him for taking away unemployment benefits, no dock fix. letting taxes go up on everything. thats not what he wants. >> chris: payroll taxes. >> right. both sides have strong incentives to make a deal. not to mention they want to get out of town for christmas. >> bill, given all of that, and you were one of the early people who said republicans -- i just felt we would remind those who may have missed it, you said repu...

Term forward looking, not loss in a sea of economic fear and people would blame him for taking away unemployment benefits, no dock fix. letting taxes go up on everything. thats not what he wants. >> chris: payroll taxes. >> right. both sides have strong incentives to make a deal. not to mention they want to get out of town for christmas. >> bill, given all of that, and you were one of the early people who said republicans -- i just felt we would remind those who may have missed it, you said repu...

It adds tens of millions of people getting bitten by this thing. i know that the insiders are more worried about that actually getting fixed than the cliff at this point. >> yeah. when i started covering capitol hill in washington, there were two things that people talked about, which was the amt patch and the dock fix. everyone is like where are we on the amt fix. they adjust the payments and do this thing with the amt. we were asking early on, is there a way? this seems like a strange way to l...

With the compensation being given to doctors, reimbursement. >> arthel: the so-called dock fix youre talking about. >> yeah. and so i think whats going to happen eventually is that both sides probably in closed door sessions, where you and i nay not know whats going on, are going to have to sit there on a bipartisan basis so that nobody gets the blame and come up with some spending cuts. the truth is that even if you hate billionaires, there arent enough of them. you cant raise taxes enough to g...

Concerned about it. because if it were to hit and we were to go over it, so many parts of the budget would be affected and so many citizens would. not only is it the expiration of the upper income tax cuts, all the tax be cuts would expire, many of us would be hit by the alternative minimum tax. the sequester affects both defense and discretionary parts of the budget that would have affects from housing to, you know, different parts that affect citizens that you want to generally protect. we wou...

Unemployment insurance is going to expire, the amt, the dock fix. this is a congress you know for years and years, its been getting worse and worse that is compulsively unable to solve problems or even try to solve problems. listen, everybody in washington knows nothings getting done until the lame duck. get out your pens and paper for november 7th because thats when the real work starts. think about it constitutionally, this is a whole group of people, some of whom have been defeated and decide...

In other words we would get over $4 trillion over that ten-year period? it would be more than the $4 trillion that a lot of people talked about, right? >> yes, thats right. >> its a great byte. chris van holland from maryland making an important point. is that basically because of the way, because of a number of things, the expiration of the bush tax cuts, but also changes to the alternative minimum tax, which congress is constantly passing patches to, the so-called medicare dock fix which also ...

middle class tax cut that has been given to us for -- by name, to reduce the amount that were paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what its going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we arent doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. thats where the jobs are going to come from. >> that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is...

lin-sanity. thats some excitement, leading the niknicks to a 17-point comeback. that wonderful three-pointer, look at this place going bananas. well talk about what lin-sanity means coming up. >> even toronto loves him, thats where they were playing. new details on whitney houston, a report on a drug investigation now. folks really want to say their good-byes but theyre saying, the family is saying theres no michael jackson-like farewell scheduled for her. they will have a small serv...